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  • Options for Remoting:
    • Virtual Network Connection (VNC)
      Pros:
      Easiest (no source code modification)
      Cons:
      Does not solve some classes of problems (audio, multiple server streams to a single client, multiple simultaneous users)
      Shared-account security issues
      Performance not acceptable to some of our users
    • Remote Midas InterFace (RMIF)
      Pros:
      Supports both X-Midas and NeXtMidas
      Good for slow, unreliable links
      Cons:
      No option for TCP on fast links (always uses RDP/UDP)
      Packet size limitations (32KiB)
    • X-Midas IPC (Inter-Process Communication) Option Tree
      • TCP-Based, authored initially by John Kralles
      • No relation to the POSIX IPC library.
      Pros:
      Does X-Midas messages, results, pipes
      Delivery guaranteed by TCP
      Cons:
      X-Midas only (no Java implementation)